How to Install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I’d give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi. I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I’ve been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was ‘Arm servers aren’t powerful enough to run serious storage servers’—despite myself and many others doing so for many years… but that’s besides the point. On a Raspberry Pi? Yes, in fact. I’ve found numerous times, running modern applications on slower hardware is an excellent way to expose little…
